My first full day in Adeja. It’s nice, I like it. The hotel is pretty swanky, I don’t think I realised just how much of a good deal I was getting at the time. I had a walk round this morning and then spent the rest of the day in the sunshine by the pool reading and people watching.
Whenever I travel anywhere, I always associate the trip with music. It always seems to happen that I’ll keep hearing a song while I’m away and it just seems to fit at the time, then there’s always some music which I’ll pick deliberately as I know where I am was meant to sound like the music. When I was in NYC I kept hearing Talk by Coldplay, walking down 5th Avenue listening to that song just seemed to fit. I also listened to Kanye West while riding the subway and pretended I was that cool. It may be a bit early to tell, but I think my Tenerife song is going to be Death Cab’s Soul Meets Body. It keeps shuffling on my iPod and it was playing during breakfast in the restaurant, it kind of sounds right I think. As for my deliberate music pick, I packed some Jose Gonzalez on to my playlist, Spanish guitars can’t sound any more at home than here.
I went to this small traditional Spanish restaurant for something to eat. It was all very nice and old fashioned. Well, it was until the waiter came to ask for my order and whipped out a PDA to take it on. He pressed something and I assume the order got zapped across to the chef. Flippin’ technology, you can’t ever get away from it. Hmmm, wonder if they thought about a little MQ Brokering to help make sure those orders are reliably transmitted.
I flew Song in my recent trip and I really like it. Not only do they have the cutest utensils, they also have free entertainment at each seat. The whole entertainment system runs off of Linux too (we got to see the whole thing get rebooted). I listened to Better Than Ezra, Coldplay, White Stripes, Depeche Mode, Christopher O’Riley plays Radiohead (whoever that guy is, it was radiohead songs on piano, very strange), and for some reason I can’t get enough of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
Comment by "Song" is great — February 4, 2006 @ 3:55 amWell that sounds like a better selection of music than you get on British Airways. They have stuff like Coldplay, but it all tends to be fairly predictable. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the system rebooting though. The one thing I really like on BA is the magazine you get in the seat pocket. If they sold it, I’d probably buy it. It has columns by people like John Simpson.
Radiohead do seem to get covered quite a lot, it always makes me play their original albums again.
Comment by Darren — February 4, 2006 @ 6:11 pmWeirdly, José González is Swedish (well, Argentinean, but grew up in Sweden). I know what you mean about spanish guitar, but still…
Comment by roo — February 5, 2006 @ 12:04 am